[Cialug] Home DLP, Anyone?

[jim kraai]

If that was very zen or sarcastic, I get it :-)

I remember an old sci-fi story about a world that was polluted with
quadrillions of little surveillance lense/transmitter things.  There was no
way to tell who produced a given lens or even whether one was of civilian
or commercial origin.  The protagonist struggled with the problem of
keeping all of them out of his house, meticulously vacuuming, etc.,
spending a significant portion of his time and resources on the problem.
In the way that such stories end, he finally gave up and dove into a
swimming pool sized pile of them.

You raise a good point.  Who's paying you to say such things?  Does it at
least pay the mortgage?  :-)
 On May 6, 2014 11:09 AM, "Dave Hala" <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:

> Try approaching the problem from a different perspective, by asking
> the question: What If do nothing? or What if I do the same thing as
> everyone else?
>
> (I'm *not* suggesting doing nothing.)
>
> :) Dave
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:57 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This email contains fever-induced, half-baked thoughts. Proceed with
> > caution.
> >
> >
> http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/06/1343210/anti-virus-is-dead-but-still-makes-money-says-symantec(uh
> ,
> > I guess I'm obligated to say, "Slashdot sux" or something like that)
> >
> > The piece says "Meanwhile, other security firms including FireEye,
> RedSocks
> > and Imperva are casting doubt on AV, suggesting a focus on data loss
> > prevention might be better."
> >
> > I used to work at a DLP company.
> >
> > I came to view DLP is an interesting, but terribly ineffective thing.
> > Rather, it's effective against terribly naive agents/hackers.
> >
> > What's the general consensus here on using DLP as a way to secure home
> and
> > small business networks?
> >
> > Here's a weird way of looking at it long term:
> > 1. Passive:  Door locks and windows are passive security. One time cost
> > plus infrequent replacement.
> > 2. Active:  Home firewall/DLP/whatever that actively burns Watt/hrs
> > constantly which must be constantly updated against new threats
> > 3? Aggressive:  Due to the rapidly increasing rate of change, in the
> future
> > will we have to install things that actively, preemptively hunt down
> > threats, or fund some company or agency that does that for us?
> >
> > If the internet ever gets fixed via to aggressive, knee-jerk
> overreactions,
> > it might really, really suck.
> >
> > I probably need to step away from the keyboard for a bit
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